regrate
verbEtymology French regratter (“to scrape again”).
1
to grate again
- The Parmesan cheese needs to be regrated into smaller bits.
2
To purchase goods from a market in order to resell them at the same (or nearby) market at an inflated price.
3
Business, Construction, Manufacturing, Masonry To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
4
To offend; to shock.
- whose clothing may regrate the eye1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC: